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Haruo Nakajima is perhaps Japan’s most famous actor, but you wouldn’t necessarily recognize his face. That’s because from 1954 to 1972, he was the man inside the Godzilla costume for 12 consecutive films. At 87 years old, many now consider Nakajima among the most iconic suit actors in film history.…

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Thirty years ago, a company called Etak released the first commercially available computerized navigation system for automobiles. Spearheaded by an engineer named Stan Honey and bankrolled by Nolan Bushnell, the cofounder of Atari, the company’s Navigator was so far ahead of its time that the phrase…

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A Alles roger? Das Monatsmagazin wurde 2015 von dem Unternehmer Ronnie Seunig gegründet. Neben einer Printausgabe, gibt es auch eine Online-Version des Magazins. Ronnie Seunig ist in der Vergangenheit politisch mit seiner Nähe zur FPÖ/BZÖ sowie Adolf Hitler aufgefallen. Laut dem Mauthausen Komitee…

Nehmen wir zum Beispiel Asterix. Die keltische Comicfigur war schon identitär, bevor es die Identitäre Bewegung überhaupt gab. Zuerst hat der Kulturhistoriker Léon Poliakov in seiner Studie „Der arische Mythos“ darauf hingewiesen, dass es in dem gallischen Dorf der Unbeugsamen nicht mit rechten…

Are you a Robot or a Unicorn? Let the world know: http://yosinski.com/IAmAUnicorn/ What happens when you let two bots have a conversation? We certainly never expected this... (More: http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/AI-vs-AI) By Igor Labutov, Jason Yosinski, and Hod Lipson of the Cornell Creative…

A friend tells me about the Green Angels, a collective of about 30 models turned high-end-weed dealers, and he introduces me to the group’s leader, Honey. The first time we speak, in the spring of 2015, she comes to my house in Greenwich Village and we talk for six hours. She is 27 and several…

A Critic at Large We can think of ourselves as an animal’s peer—or its protector. What will robots decide about us? November 20, 2016 In relation to animals, we can conceive of ourselves as peers or protectors. Robots may soon face the same choice about us.Illustration by Nishant Choksi Harambe, a…

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The Red Pill of N26 Security Vincent Haupert Playlists: '33c3' videos starting here / audio / related events 30 min 2016-12-27 54.4k Fahrplan FinTechs increasingly cut the ground from under long-established banks’ feet. With a "Mobile First" strategy, many set their sights on bringing all financial…

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It’s up against some stiff competition, but there’s a runaway front-runner in the “wrongest idea of 2016” derby. It’s the aphorism, once fashionable on the morning-talk show circuit, that the media mistakenly took Donald Trump “literally but not seriously,” when they should have taken him “seriously…

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The winner of our tenth essay contest, Meghan Tear Plummer, shares her honest, heartfelt story of loving her transgender brother—and missing the sister he used to be. Author Plummer, 26, in a Birmingham, Alabama, coffee shop near her home My sister's clothes hang in my closet and fill my drawers.…

The Tokyo Vice author digs into cryptocurrency's darkest chapters Jake Adelstein is an American journalist and author based in Japan. His work includes Tokyo Vice (adapted into an HBO Max series), The Last Yakuza, and Tokyo Noir. Adelstein's latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin:… READ THE REST…

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Technology is commanding our attention in infinite, insurmountable loops. A country trip off-grid helped me escape. There are a thousand beautiful ways to start the day that don’t begin with looking a

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